Audi & VW from the 2000s
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Quiet afternoon so thought I'd pick this up.
Managed to recover files from an external hard drive and thought I'd share some photos from my time as a sales assistant/driver and later a brief stint in sales. Bear in mind the photos were taken on a Nokia N73, 6500 and later an iPhone 3GS
Starting with fleet sales deliveries....
General walkaround photos:
A bit photo-heavy so I'll do in separate posts.
Managed to recover files from an external hard drive and thought I'd share some photos from my time as a sales assistant/driver and later a brief stint in sales. Bear in mind the photos were taken on a Nokia N73, 6500 and later an iPhone 3GS
Starting with fleet sales deliveries....
General walkaround photos:
A bit photo-heavy so I'll do in separate posts.
Date of below R32 - March 2005
The below Lupo GTI was a demo at the time but the salesman was caught drink driving one weekend, so naturally the car was taken off him, but he kept his job! (They sent me out on "his" test drives)
OK, the below photos are rubbish but there's a story behind it and you don't often see Polos with leather. An Anglo/French customer ordered a Polo, saw on collection that there was a crack in the dashboard and rejected the car. When the below one was built and ready for delivery, she was in Paris so she "requested" that it be delivered to her, so I was asked to take it. I stayed overnight and brought back their previous shape Polo.
The used car manager's new-ish demo:
September 2006 - an RS6 Avant bought for used stock. Can't remember what the name of the leather was (butterscotch?!) but I snapped some photos before putting it away for prep!
The occasional delivery in the middle of the road - lovely!
A 3.2 that (I think) I delivered to Wiltshire.
A horribly-spaced plate ;D
If I remember correctly, this W12 was on loan from Milton Keynes for a service dept customer. It. Was. Quick. It also had quite a slippery wooden-trimmed steering wheel!
The below Lupo GTI was a demo at the time but the salesman was caught drink driving one weekend, so naturally the car was taken off him, but he kept his job! (They sent me out on "his" test drives)
OK, the below photos are rubbish but there's a story behind it and you don't often see Polos with leather. An Anglo/French customer ordered a Polo, saw on collection that there was a crack in the dashboard and rejected the car. When the below one was built and ready for delivery, she was in Paris so she "requested" that it be delivered to her, so I was asked to take it. I stayed overnight and brought back their previous shape Polo.
The used car manager's new-ish demo:
September 2006 - an RS6 Avant bought for used stock. Can't remember what the name of the leather was (butterscotch?!) but I snapped some photos before putting it away for prep!
The occasional delivery in the middle of the road - lovely!
A 3.2 that (I think) I delivered to Wiltshire.
A horribly-spaced plate ;D
If I remember correctly, this W12 was on loan from Milton Keynes for a service dept customer. It. Was. Quick. It also had quite a slippery wooden-trimmed steering wheel!
Teh3692 said:
Mine didn’t go through you back in 2005 did it? Notice the London Registrations
Possibly not. I was in Battersea which seemed to get LA - LG registrations (Wimbledon DVLA). Yours may have been originally supplied in North London. I say that because when Audi pulled the Battersea franchise in 2003, to keep some continuity they had their cars supplied by Finchley Road which seemed to get LN/LO registrations (at the time). Edited to say yours could have originally come from Alan Day.MisanoPayments said:
Aside: This is when I think the rot started to set in. That dealership building is built to what Audi called the "Terminal" design standard (as in, airport terminal; not end of life...)
They forced the franchisees to borrow heavily to construct new dealerships in accordance with this design language thinking that a fancy building mattered more than the cars themselves. Maybe it did for some customers. For a while, at least.
dxg said:
Aside: This is when I think the rot started to set in.
That dealership building is built to what Audi called the "Terminal" design standard (as in, airport terminal; not end of life...)
They forced the franchisees to borrow heavily to construct new dealerships in accordance with this design language thinking that a fancy building mattered more than the cars themselves. Maybe it did for some customers. For a while, at least.
BMW had started doing this from the late-80s, I know people who had franchises taken off them because they refused to build some £3million+ gin palace at BMW's behest. As you say, given people at the time knew what they were buying and why they were buying it compared to other brand's offerings, it didn't make any sense to me. That dealership building is built to what Audi called the "Terminal" design standard (as in, airport terminal; not end of life...)
They forced the franchisees to borrow heavily to construct new dealerships in accordance with this design language thinking that a fancy building mattered more than the cars themselves. Maybe it did for some customers. For a while, at least.
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